I've noticed a distressing trend in modern societies in which the state absorbs the karmic consequences of the actions of its citizens to the extent that people are unable to change, and the state degradates further and further as time goes on, and gets locked into a descending spiral. In mundane terms, this is due to the cushioning of people's life responsibilities through grants, welfare and such, handed out in an indiscriminate and politised manner. People are being robbed of free will this way, and the karmic price is indirectly paid by the collective instead of the individual, as it dissolves among state organisms and policies.
